Animal Ethics

AUGUST 25, 2010

15): We are glad to see an article describing the intensive confinement of egg-laying chickens, but we disagree when it says that animal advocates and consumers are “driving big changes” in the treatment of chickens. At most, chickens will be guaranteed room to spread their wings. Like humans, animals have a right to enjoy life.

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Animal Ethics

AUGUST 4, 2009

Here is a New York Times story about the growing number of people who raise chickens.

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Animal Ethics

AUGUST 20, 2010

15): I have one very simple piece of advice for consumers interested in higher-quality eggs from humanely treated chickens: stop buying eggs at the grocery store. The eggs we eat come from chickens that spend their days outside, scratching and eating grubs. To the Editor: Re " A Hen's Space to Roost ” (Week in Review, Aug.

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Animal Ethics

JULY 21, 2010

To the Editor: In your July 12 editorial “ A Humane Egg ,” you disparage the modern, sanitary housing systems for egg-laying hens, which have improved chickens’ health and well-being, improved consumer food safety and kept eggs a nutritious and economical staple on kitchen tables and restaurant menus nationwide.

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Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 28, 2007

18): As a microbiologist, I know that study after study has highlighted the human health threat from using antibiotics as feed additives for hogs, chickens and cattle, creating super-bugs—bacteria that no longer can be treated with antibiotics. Slaughter Member of Congress, 28th District, New York Washington, Sept.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 15, 2014

I only had one sticky trap bird,” says Laura Westlake, a rehabber on Long Island, New York. “A If people have to use them, I suggest they create a cage of chicken wire and hang the strip inside the cage.”. says Lisa Kelly, of Teatown Lake Reservation in New York. Ugh, glue traps!”

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10,000 Birds

JULY 3, 2020

Lately, it’s been hot and mostly dry here in eastern New York lately, with long stretches of humid, summery days without wind or rain, when even the slightest breeze would have provided some relief. The winds have abated too, with the gentle breezes of spring giving way to the still, oppressive heat of summer. But none came.

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Animal Ethics

APRIL 27, 2008

We encourage kids to gently pet baby lambs, cows, chickens and pigs, but we deny them this loving connection when we serve animals for dinner by surreptitiously calling them chops, hamburger, nuggets and bacon. More than nine billion chickens are slaughtered each year in the United States. Vadim Liberman New York, April 23, 2008

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

Alexander Mauskop New York, Nov. Cows, domestic sheep, chickens and many others would not survive if they were not raised for human consumption, protected from malnutrition, disease and predators. David Peters New York, Nov. But even then if we were to survive we would have to kill some animals in self-defense.

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Animal Ethics

AUGUST 2, 2008

We pay lip service to more humane treatment of the animals that we eat, but how many of us look beyond the label on the package of chicken cutlets? Bernard Burlew New York, July 31, 2008 To the Editor: While I am grateful for Nicholas D. Janet Treadaway New York, July 31, 2008 To the Editor: I, too, am a farm boy.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 7, 2012

Now, as a native New Yorker who makes my home in Queens I don’t get to see many lizards. We have just three native species of lizard in New York State ( Northern Fence Lizard , Five-lined Skink and Coal Skink ) and one introduced species ( Italian Wall Lizard ).

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Animal Person

AUGUST 18, 2011

And of course, many self-identified vegetarians eat fishes and/or chickens. My doctorate in Applied Linguistics from New York University puts me at a considerable disadvantage. Then there's the instructional video sent in by a viewer teaching us how to make chicken cutlets. But it's called "chicken."

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

Niman for pasturing the animals to provide all the beef, turkey, chicken and pork eaten in this country? Barry Rehfeld New York, Nov. When I see “grass-fed” beef from the Niman Ranch and others on menus at the high-end restaurants I occasionally visit, the items offered are invariably among the most expensive on the list.

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 30, 2008

Elaine Sloan New York, Jan. Having a roast or baked chicken used to be for special occasions. To the Editor: Re “ Rethinking the Meat-Guzzler ” (Week in Review, Jan. But there is indeed a simple answer to these problems: Go vegan. Brian O’Reilly Montclair, N.J., We reap what we sow. Michelle Gordon Gulfport, Miss.,

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 12, 2008

9, 2008 Note from KBJ: Some reasons for vegetarianism apply to all animals, from cows, pigs, and sheep to turkeys, chickens, and fish. Yet Al Gore does not even mention the need for Americans to reduce meat consumption as we attempt to rescue ourselves from the climate crisis. Michael Radkowsky Washington, Nov.

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4 The Love Of Animals

SEPTEMBER 27, 2009

Check out this video from the premier episode: RESCUE INK UNLEASHED is a new weekly series that documents this unlikely group of animal activists on their crusade to save helpless, abandoned and abused animals. Members of Rescue Ink gather to discuss a game plan on how to catch a group of stray chickens running amok in Queens, New York.

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Animal Ethics

MARCH 11, 2007

But horses are not cows, pigs or chickens. Hope Ryden New York, March 5, 2007 The writer is the author of a book about America’s last wild horses. The issue is not whether slaughtering horses is un-American, but that it is inhumane and wholly unnecessary. Yes, all food animals should meet a dignified end.

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Animal Ethics

OCTOBER 30, 2007

There is no moral difference between eating a dog or a pig, a cat or a chicken. For the same reason that most of us would not eat our pets, we should also not eat chickens, pigs or other animals. Borders Jr. Louisville, Ky.,

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Animal Person

AUGUST 19, 2009

It just so happens that after I read Bea's comment from yesterday about reaching kids with our message I saw a New York Times article from today called " Where Little Chefs Learn the Art of Slicing and Dicing ," by Ann Farmer. The students learn to debone a chicken and slice cheese. And what about cheese?

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 1, 2021

The new series was masterminded by Chanticleer founder Paul Steiner, who was lauded on his death 19 years later for his “brilliant idea of creating bird guides with photographs” and organizing them visually. New York Times, March 11, 1996. by John Bull and John Farrand, Jr., revised by John Farrand, Jr.

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Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 11, 2007

High-fat, cholesterol-laden chicken nuggets and burgers meet requirements set by the U.S.D.A. The United States Department of Agriculture purchases food, including high-fat meat and dairy products, under the direction of Congress based on agricultural surpluses and price support activities to help American agriculture producers.

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Critter News

JULY 8, 2011

Animal Welfare Groups Win Industry Backing for First-Ever Federal Regulation of Hen Welfare Groundswell of Public Support Results in Full Court Press for Nationwide Law Protecting Chickens to Replace State-by-State Initiatives WATKINS GLEN, N.Y.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Doug Futuyma is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the Department of Ecology and Evolution at Stony Brook University, State University of New York, and he has taught much of this material to undergraduate and graduate students, and also birders in later years, for literally decades.

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Animal Person

APRIL 7, 2009

" Surge in Abandoned Horses Renews Debate Over Slaughterhouses " in today's New York Times begs a lot of questions that I wonder how you would answer. In other words, horses, like pigs and cows and chickens, are commodities whose worth has a dollar value to people, and we should be doing what we can do maximize that dollar value.

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Animal Person

FEBRUARY 5, 2010

But it's also remarkable in that Roger Cohen, a 50-something man who writes for the New York Times, wonders: But do pigs have any more or less of a soul than dogs? This is a good news/bad news story. " Dog Days in China " is a small piece with no gruesome slideshow. Are they any more or less sentient?

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Animal Person

AUGUST 23, 2009

The New York Times ' Nicholas D. Food for my soul does not involve grilled greyhound any more than it involves grilled chicken. Kristof frustrates me. His passion and compassion for humans is immense, but he appears to have some kind of mental block with nonhuman animals. on my schedule and for my palate.

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Animal Person

JANUARY 18, 2010

In " Therapists Report Increase in Green Disputes " in the Environment section of today's New York Times, Leslie Kaufman reports that American households have become a battleground for beliefs about the environment. Does Planet Earth have the time for everyone to decide they're "ready" to give it a break?

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4 The Love Of Animals

DECEMBER 6, 2011

The two most common food allergies or food intolerances in pets are: Protein including chicken, beef, pork, fish, eggs and soy. She works at a gym in Brooklyn, New York, where she gets great inspiration for her freelance health-related articles and blogs. Grains like wheat or corn. Upset stomach. Refusal to eat.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 20, 2011

I first met Paul Guris, owner of See Life Paulagics , fittingly enough, on a pelagic trip out of Freeport, New York in February of 2006. I love South Park , Family Guy , and Robot Chicken , and if you know those shows then they should be more than enough explanation for that last sentence. I do not have an “obsession”.

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Animal Person

DECEMBER 17, 2009

In short order I would return to New York to pursue a doctorate in Applied Linguistics at New York University, where at least I would be able to obtain a fellowship and rack up only $40,000 of debt. He was bleeding from several bullet wounds, and visibly in excruciating pain.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 1, 2020

There are owls in New York City. They are the city’s latest, maybe only, celebrity media sensation, and photographs show crowds of New Yorkers craning their necks up as far as their masks allow, holding phones at arm’s length, using opera glasses and huge binoculars that remind me of the ones my dad used at the racetrack.

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 16, 2008

Feeding grain to chickens, pigs and cows is even more inefficient, with 70 percent of grain grown in the United States going to animals raised for food. Besides depleting the ocean’s supply of fish for those animals normally feeding on them, the factory farming of cattle, pigs and chickens uses excessive water and pollutes our land.

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Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

Peters Paso Robles, Calif., And it is not just at the slaughterhouses but at the factory farms where these animals are tortured from the very beginning of their lives to the horrible end.

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Animal Ethics

AUGUST 20, 2007

12): While this is a step in the right direction toward reducing the animal abuse inherent in all factory farming (from the chicken’s point of view), it’s still a long way from what nature intended. Chickens enjoy being together in small flocks, sunning, dust bathing and scratching in the soil for food. 13, 2007

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 13, 2011

These Blasts From The Past Nice November Weekend Birds in Flight at Sandy Hook Owls in the Gloaming What is the Chicken Inferno? Cats Are Still Public Enemy Number One, For Birds The New York Times and Tweety have it absolutely correct. Wicked, right? Hat-tip to Stella.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 1, 2011

When I upped my goal to some insane stratospheric level in June, going back to find things like Lesser Prairie-Chicken (which I missed) became more problematic. Bicknell’s Thrush is a bird that is important to me because I grew up in New York’s Catskill Mountains, one of the places that it breeds. Thanks so much.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 12, 2011

Plus, I mean, it’s a giant chicken-looking thing that’s actually related to ducks… with that kind of identity crisis going on, what’s not to love? Cats Are Still Public Enemy Number One, For Birds The New York Times and Tweety have it absolutely correct. RECENT POSTS More Habitat for Snowy Plover?

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